Lorraine Courtney: Outrage over housing sizes rings hollow when we just want somewhere to live

People talk a lot about dignity in housing as if it’s directly tied to square footage or light levels. But dignity, for me, was not having to move every May because a landlord’s cousin “needed the room”. It was finding a place – any place – where I wasn’t competing with 27 other hopefuls queued down a terrace as if it was Willy Wonka’s factory tour.